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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5253298, member: 110350&quot;]In fact, I&#039;m kind of happy that the coin turns out to have been issued around 78 BCE: it puts it right in with my top 10 Republican coins, out of which five were from the period 82-77 BCE, and represented Sulla&#039;s past or anticipated triumphs. So it fits perfectly in date, in the fact that it was issued under Sulla&#039;s authority, and in the fact that it is, after all, a &quot;Republican Provincial&quot; coin, as I like to call them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was understating things when I said that dealers still commonly date these Year 1 - Year 9 Tralleis/Tralles cistophoric tetradrachms, with ΠTOΛ [PTOL-] as magistrate and a small figure of Dionysos on the reverse, in accordance with the &quot;traditional view.&quot; In fact, according to acsearch, there have been 36 of them sold under the spelling Tralleis and 7 under Tralles in the last two decades, including almost a dozen this year, mostly by Roma Numismatics.&nbsp; Every single one listed (including mine, sold by CNG in 2010) uses the traditional dating system.* Unless some catalogue picks up the change in scholarly opinion over the last few decades (never mind 1977 and 1932), that isn&#039;t going to change.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again for your help.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Only one other one besides mine was from Year 8.&nbsp; No Year 9s have ever been on the market so far as I know.&nbsp; On the other hand, I see a lot of Year 2s and&nbsp; undated ones (from Year 1). This is all consistent with the hoard analysis set forth in Dr. Carbone&#039;s article. See pp. 172-173, Figure 4c, listing the following numbers for each of Years 1-8:&nbsp; 44, 23, 10, 16, 6, 7,&nbsp; 2, and 4 (with zero for Year 9).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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